South Warwickshire Family History Society War Memorial Transcription Project |
"The fruit of righteousness shall be Peace and the effect of Justice security for ever"
IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THOSE BELONGING TO LADBROKE AND RADBOURNE
WHO, DURING THE GREAT WAR 1914~1918, ANSWERED TO THE CALL OF KING AND COUNTRY
AND HELPED TO VINDICATE THE CAUSE OF JUSTICE AND LIBERTY
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| All Saints Church |
Memorial Plaque |
"If our time be come let us manfully die for our brethren and let us not stain our honour"
THESE NINE MADE THE GREAT SACRIFICE
"Greater love hath no man than this"
| WILLIAM TIMMS | JOHN OWEN | ALBERT J. T. GILKS |
| THOMAS E. TERRY | TOM BIRD | WILLIAM FEARN |
| JAMES HUMPHRIES | WILLIAM GILKS | HARVEY BIRD |
ROLL OF HONOUR
These thirty two, during the long and arduous conflict
rendered dutiful service in various fields and in dviers[e] ways
"Remembering without ceasing your labour and patience"
| Allan Heywood FELL | R.C. Palmer MOREWOOD | W.F.C. POWELL | Leopold GRIFFITH | E. Sydney BUTLER |
| Frederick GILKS | Alfred M. TERRY | Albert E. LANGFORD | Fred WARD | Harold P. SHEPHERD |
| Frederick B. SHEPHERD | W.K. SHEPHERD | Jonathon A. GREEN | Arthur FEARN | John W. GIBSON |
| John WARD | Walter FAULKNER | George FEARN | Albert CUMMINGS | Thomas PRATT |
| Ellis TIMMS | R. Victor BUTLER | Fred BASELEY | Thomas TIMMS | Wilfred OFFORD |
| John HORNE | James WARD | Frank COLLINS | Ralph COLLINS | John E. FEARN |
| ~ | Fred SIMS | ~ | Reginald Griffin | ~ |
While others here unnamed by their succour in tribulation and patience under suffering
kept open the door of Hope and bright the lamp of Charity which endureath all things
All witness bear, as men go by, That greater things than Life and Death
Are Truth and Right which cannot die
THE PRICE OF THE WAR
"Lest ye forget"
| To the British Empire | To the World | |
| In Human Life |
666,883 | 7,000,000 |
| In Casualties |
2,395,088 | 28,000,000 |
| In Money |
8,000,000,000 | 400,000,000,000 |
Let the Peace of Christ rule in your hearts to the which ye were called in one body
©Bibliography: All of our information is independently researched and then compared to other sources. A list of the sources we use to do our independent research will be published soon. All of the photographs herein are linked back to their original source, except those taken by SWFHS. We are grateful to those other sources:
- Trench Maps are courtesy of the excellent website TMAPPER at https://www.tmapper.com
- Warwickshire Yeomanry Museum For Help with Yeomanry Soldiers
- The County of Warwickshire Roll of Honour - Vol 1 South Warwickshire book by Kenneth Fowler. SWFHS purchased this book and retains it in our small library. Able Publishing ISBN-10 : 1903607639 & ISBN-13 : 978-1903607633
- Find A Grave and it's numerous contributors for use of photographs, particularly Grave stones. SWFHS supplies pictures of War Memorials to the site in the name of Ian Shuter.
